{"id":8325,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/levelism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:29","slug":"levelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/levelism\/","title":{"rendered":"Levelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neologism to denote a penchant, particularly in the life sciences,&nbsp;for depicting the relevant disciplines as being ordered in a hierarchy of levels of organizations from the most &#8216;simple&#8217; to most the &#8216;complex&#8217;, usually to evoke an anti-reductionist stance and in defence of emergence, or one espousing reductionism of all levels to the lowest one (perhaps by means of bridge laws) such as molecular biology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"bridge_law_-or_principle-\">Bridge law (or principle)<\/a>, <a href=\"emergence\">Emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"levels_of_analysis\">Levels of analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"levels_of_organization\">Levels of organization<\/a>, <a href=\"life_sciences\">Life sciences<\/a>, <a href=\"reductionism\">Reductionism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neologism to denote a penchant, particularly in the life sciences,&nbsp;for depicting the relevant disciplines as being ordered in a hierarchy of levels of organizations from the most &#8216;simple&#8217; to most the &#8216;complex&#8217;, usually to evoke an anti-reductionist stance and in defence of emergence, or one espousing reductionism of all levels to the lowest one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/levelism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Levelism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}